Crossdressing: Demystifying Femininity and Rethinking “Male Privilege”

 
1 Emily Kane, “‘No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!’ Parents’ Responses to Children’s Gender Nonconformity,” Gender and Society 20, no. 2 (2006), 149-176.
2 Ducat, The Wimp Factor, 24-59. See also Burke, Gender Shock, 60-65, 123-125.
3 Ducat, The Wimp Factor, 26-27.
4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalization.
5 bell hooks, preface to Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984).
6 Ducat, The Wimp Factor, 24-59.
7 Ibid., 30-31; “Gender Constancy,” Enotes.com Encyclopedia of Children’s Health (http://health.enotes.com/childrens-healthencyclopedia/gender-constancy); Lev, Transgender Emergence, 124.
8 For other interesting trans perspectives on “male privilege,” see Valerio, “‘Now That You’re a White Man,’” and Diana Courvant, “Speaking of Privilege,” This Bridge We Call Home, 239-254 and, 458-463 respectively.
9 Green, Becoming a Visible Man, 35-37; Rubin, Self-Made Men, 165-168; Valerio, “‘Now That You’re a White Man,’”; Valerio, The Testosterone Files.
10 Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Again (New York: Viking, 2006).